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Blended
SHARON M DRAPER - Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Format: Hardcover
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Eleven-year-old Isabella's blended family is more divided than ever in this thoughtful story about divorce and racial identity from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Out of My Mind, Sharon M. Draper.Eleven-year-old Isabella's parents are divorced,... |
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Inside Out and Back Again: A Harper Classic
Thanhha Lai - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the National Book Award, a Newbery Honor, and a #1 New York Times bestseller!Inspired by the author's childhood experience as a refugee - fleeing Vietnam after the fall of Saigon and immigrating to Alabama - this coming-of-age debut told in verse has been celebrated for its touching... |
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Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book
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It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him:1. He has his own suitcase filled with his own important, secret things.2. He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner... |
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Echo
Pam MunÌ?oz Ryan - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of a 2016 Newbery Honor, ECHO pushes the boundaries of genre, form, and storytelling innovation. Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica. Decades... |
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Betty Before X
Ilyasah Shabazz - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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In Detroit, 1945, eleven-year-old Betty's house doesn't quite feel like home. She believes her mother loves her, but she can't shake the feeling that her mother doesn't want her. Church helps those worries fade, if only for a little while. The singing, the preaching, the speeches... |
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor - Puffin Books
Format: Paperback
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With the land to hold them together, nothing can tear the Logans apart.Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year - the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she is black... |
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Return to Sender
Julia Alvarez - Knopf Books for Young Readers; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn’t sure what to make of these workers. Are they undocumented? And what about the three daughters, particularly... |
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For Black Girls Like Me
Mariama J. Lockington - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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In this lyrical coming-of-age story about family, sisterhood, music, race, and identity, Mariama J. Lockington draws on some of the emotional truths from her own experiences growing up with an adoptive white family.I am a girl but most days I feel like a question mark.Makeda June Kirkland... |
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Harbor Me
JACQUELINE WOODSON - Nancy Paulsen Books
Format: Hardcover
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Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Jacqueline Woodson's first middle-grade novel since National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming celebrates the healing that can occur when a group of students share their stories. It all starts... |
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The Night Diary
Veera Hiranandani - Kokila
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of Inside Out and Back Again and The War That Saved My Life comes a poignant, personal, and hopeful tale of India's partition, and of one girl's journey to find a new home in a divided countryIt's 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated... |
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Genesis Begins Again
Alicia D. Williams - Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Format: Hardcover
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This deeply sensitive and powerful debut novel tells the story of a thirteen-year-old who must overcome internalized racism and a verbally abusive family to finally learn to love herself.There are ninety-six things Genesis hates about herself. She knows the exact number because she keeps... |
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A Crack in the Sea
H M Bouwman - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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An enchanting historical fantasy adventure perfect for fans of Thanhha Lai's Newbery Honor-winning Inside Out and Back Again No one comes to the Second World on purpose. The doorway between worlds opens only when least expected. The Raft King is desperate to change that by finding... |
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Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
Jason Reynolds - Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Format: Hardcover
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A National Book Award Finalist! From National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a novel told in ten blocks, showing all the different directions a walk home can take.This story was going to begin like all the best stories. With a school... |
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